Well we are back up in Alaska, and this is the reason I haven't updated for awhile. You see, every year that we come up I get into a "funk." It's one of those things I expect every year and just have to work my way through it, until finally I feel like myself again. I am getting there, though am struggling with a little bit of homesickness (I'll get over it eventually)
We had a heck of a time getting back up here though. We left San Antonio on March 28th. I was actually looking forward to the trip, because the first leg of our journey was to be on Frontier Airlines, which Jebb has never flown but I have. I love that they have TV's on the back of every seat. You can pay (of course nothing is free anymore) to watch live TV during your flight. WONDERFUL!! Well, we got to the airport at 4:45 am. Dog, bags, baby and all, boy were we a sight. We get up to the counter and low and behold they won't let us fly! We had all of the same documentation that we have always had for Chevy to fly, however Frontier wouldn't let him fly unless we had documentation stating the exact tempatures that Chevy could fly under. Well this set Jebb off, telling her over and over that Chevy flys to Alaska and 30 degree weather in Denver is nothing for him. Well they wouldn't have any of it, without these exact tempatures written by the vet they would not allow the Lauingers (b/c Chevy is one of us) to fly. So we barely were able to find a flight that afternoon, and it wasn't even a flight to Portland, we had to settle for a flight to Seattle (4 Hour Drive for Jebb's Dad).
We got the correct info from the Vet, and were back to the airport that afternoon. While checking in we found that there were still no flights available to Portland, so we still were heading to Seattle.
We made it to Denver, and checked again on a Portland flight. They had two seats on a later flight, yea!! So we informed them that we had a dog that needed to get off the Seattle flight. They took him off and told us not to worry, "all the pets stay under the airport until their flights board." Great, so all of our headaches from this morning were unwarranted, as the pets aren't even left out!!! Oh well, we all made it on the Portland flight, all of us except our luggage that is, it ended up in Seattle!!
We really enjoyed visiting with Jebb's family in Portland.
We made it to Alaska, no Volcanic Eruptions disrupted our flight thank goodness. There was plenty of snow on the ground to greet us.
It's starting to melt now, it's almost gone in fact. We still had plenty around for our Easter Egg Hunt though!
Hope Everyone is well!
